New Delhi: The Election Commission Thursday issued a show cause notice to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his “Ali” and “Bajrang Bali” remarks while addressing a rally in Meerut. Finding him prima facie guilty of violating the model code of conduct, the commission asked him to respond by Friday evening. Adityanath had compared […]

Meerut (UP): The official mobile phone of an inspector killed in the December mob violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district has been recovered from the residence of the man who allegedly shot him, officials said Sunday. The recovery comes nearly two months after the incident in Bulandshahr’s Siana area where on December 3 a mob […]

Muzaffarnagar: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw 18 cases related to the Muzaffarnagar riots and asked the district authorities to approach the court, sources said Sunday. UP’s special secretary of law JJ Singh has directed Muzaffarnagar district magistrate Rajeev Sharma to withdraw the cases, they said. On the directive from Lucknow, the district […]

NEW DELHI: The BJP Sunday claimed that interception of calls and emails were done illegally during the Congress-led UPA government while Modi dispensation has adopted legal means with its order designating 10 agencies to do so. In an order on Thursday, the Union home ministry authorised 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt “any […]

HYDERABAD: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday lashed out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath again over his “Nizam” barb at him, saying Indian Muslims had rejected Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s two-nation theory and he is a citizen of this country “by choice”. The Hyderabad MP was responding to Adityanath’s recent remarks at a rally […]

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Sunday accused the Congress of obstructing construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya and charged the Rahul Gandhi-led party and TRS with indulging in Muslim appeasement. “If anyone is creating obstruction in the way of construction of a grand temple in the birthplace of lord Ram, it’s Congress, Congress,” […]

By Tabish Khursheed For some time now, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, is featuring in the news for his outlandish statements and efforts to rename every city , town and railway station. Recently, he renamed Mughal Sarai as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya; he seems hell bent […]

Ayodhya (UP): Close on the heels of renaming Allahabad as Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Tuesday announced that Faizabad district will henceforth be known as Ayodhya. “Ayodhya is a symbol of our ‘aan, baan aur shaan’ (honour, pride and prestige)” he said in the pilgrim town, about 120 km from state capital Lucknow. […]

New Delhi: The Archaeological Survey of India has banned Muslims from offering namaz at the mosque located at the premises of the Taj Mahal in Agra on all days except Fridays, leading New Delhi based English daily reported on Monday. On Sunday, the ASI reportedly locked the tank where devotees clean themselves before offering prayers. […]

HARIDWAR: Asserting that a Ram temple will be built in Ayodhya soon, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said Sunday a piece of good news regarding this awaited devotees all over the country. He said a South Korean delegation was coming to Ayodhya to celebrate Diwali on Nov 6 when the festival of lights would […]

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